TV footage shows Afghan freedom fighters with US arms and ammo
Johnny Asia
Proclamation 5621 -- Afghanistan Day, 1987
March 20, 1987
By the President of the United States
On the battlefield, the resistance has demonstrated growing strength.
Notable achievements include an increased ability to counter communist
air power, the renewal of heavy military pressure on Kabul, the
resurgence of resistance activity in the north, and the defeat of
communist efforts to consolidate control over Kandahar and Herat,
Afghanistan's second and third largest cities.
The success of the resistance may well have prompted the Soviets to
demonstrate a new interest in the political side of the conflict.
http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1987/032087c.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091110/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan
TV footage shows Afghan insurgents with US ammo
AP
By AMIR SHAH and DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press Writers
KABUL � Television footage broadcast Tuesday showed insurgents
handling what appears to be U.S. ammunition in a remote area of
eastern Afghanistan that American forces left last month following a
deadly firefight that killed eight troops.
The U.S. military said the forces that left the area said they removed
and accounted for their equipment.
Al-Jazeera broadcast video showing insurgents handling weapons,
including anti-personnel mines with U.S. markings on them. The
television station reported that insurgents said they seized the
weapons from two U.S. remote outposts in Nuristan province. It was
unclear when the video was filmed.
Nuristan was the site of an Oct. 3 battle in which some 200 fighters
bombarded a joint U.S.-Afghan army outpost with small arms,
rocket-propelled grenades and mortar shells. Eight U.S. troops died �
as well as three Afghan soldiers � in one of the heaviest losses of
U.S. life in a single battle since the war began.
Lt. Col. Todd Vician, a spokesman for NATO forces, said the material
in the footage "appears to be U.S. equipment."
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